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Mayhaps one ought run out right now and rent the DVD of "Amadeus."
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Yeah! If one doesn't mind fictionalized biography.
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Worked for James Frey.
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Yeah! If one doesn't mind fictionalized biography.
you mean Wolfie didn't chortle like that??
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Yeah, me too, I think the movie took certain liberties...but I do believe that the adult Mozart would be dismayed by the dearth of free Internet offerings of his music. Damn capitalist pigs. Mozart belongs to the World, not copy writing politicians. 
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Yeahbut -- the artists who perform the music also belong to the present world and without being paid for their efforts they wouldn't perform the works.
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Oh, by the way, have you seen John Galt recently?
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Who is John Galt?
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Who is John Galt?
You are John Galt, Faldage.
And here on these pristine pages you are not supposed to espouse John Galtisms!
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Anna, I saw in the paper that today is/was his birthday, and thought of you...and sure 'nuff, here you've started a thread for him!  Edti: Ooh! Only just realized there might be more than just facts, why you put that link to Google...and there was! Neat!
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Who is John Galt? A fictional character created by Ayn Rand.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Cos I know little Latin and less Greek and 'cos the subject lines gets truncated, my first thought when I saw the abocve subject was that somebody's cat had died in South Africa.
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Ever stop to think that Amadeus is the same name as Gottlieb? Not to mention Dorothy/Dorothea and Theodore?
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or that football great joe green was guiseppi verde in italian?
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Ever stop to think that Amadeus is the same name as Gottlieb?
I read somewhere that Wolfie never once used Amadeus, preferring Amadé over the Gottlieb he was given at birth.
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or that football great joe green was guiseppi verde in italian?
Do you mean Giuseppe Verde? Giu, not gui.
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Giu, not gui.
Oh, sure. Correct Ledasdottir's spelling. That's kind of like improving the plotline of the Manhattan telephone book.
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A fictional character created by Ayn Rand.
Yeah. And the question is a quote from the book. 
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I read somewhere that Wolfie never once used Amadeus, preferring Amadé over the Gottlieb he was given at birth.
And I read he tried out Theophilus along the way.
(Yes, Jackie, isn't that a great Google header??)
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and Dorothy/ Theodore (and Matthew) are really gift of god, rather than love of god. (if you want to quibble)
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Theophilus would be the Greek calque for Amadeus / Gottlieb.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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What are you, zm, playing Ron Obvious today? 
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I was responding to of troy.
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That's the onliest thing I know from whatever book John Galt is from. The onlier other thing I know about Ayn Rand is in one of her books she postulated some civilization that was under the thrall of some repressive regime, everybody had phone numbers for names, and someone stumbled across the word capitalism written on a piece of paper in a cave somewhere and saw the light and was thereby freed from all his indoctrination.
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and i was responding to Wolf comments above about Dorothy and Theodore!
the amount i greek i know is scant, but i do know phil(vowel) is a greek root for love (as found in philadelphia and anglophile...i don't alway know recognize the subtle difference the vowels imply (seeming to be related to the laten declentions (that faldage and others go on about..
ama, amas.. amore.. got know it Love
(is it i love you or you love me? or i am in love with the idea of love? one of those.. i handn't thought about amadeus as being love of god (even thought the sunday's past NYTimes cross word was dedicated to wolfie..)
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oh, oops! I really ought to pay more attention to that sort of thing. 
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Dear Faldage,
Ayn Rand is murky.
To her eternal disconnect, she didn't know who John Galt was either.
Ayn Rand was a woman.
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You teachin granny to suck eggs again?
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You teachin granny to suck eggs again?
The sentence you reference, grumpy Faldage, is the denouement of the two sentences that went before.
Do you not understand high literary style or are you merely calling my grandmother an egg sucking dog?
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Ayn Rand was a woman.
I had a button, in my youth, that read: "Ayn Rand is Ronald Reagan in drag."
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Pardon the rudeness of my egg-sucking reply, Faldotage, but your idiom is older than dirt and we of the 21st Century can't be expected to recognize the quaint folk sayings you all learned in the 19th Century.
You see, we have fish to fry and things to bang and the future looms endlessly ahead. 
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